Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #47: Surprise!

Kind of a fun scenario to play. I setup my Americans defending on the far northeastern hill so the North Koreans will have to travel far to try and eliminate at least two of the four American 105mm & 155mm artillery pieces to win the game, nothing else matters. The Americans of course surround those pervious artillery pieces with everything they can, to defend them accept some forward spotting units and Infantry stations at some key points.

The North Koreans have two groups of forces that enter the map on the western edge, one on turn one and the other a truck mounted Infantry force that enters on turn eight. The first group of NKPA that entered the map on turn one split up into three forces, as not to bunch up and also to try and attack from three different locations. The Americans are dug-in but have to maneuver a bit to adjust for different NKPA attacking approaches. The Forward Jeep and Sergeant are able to spot the central North Koreans and have artillery rain in on them before they are overrun and lost but well worth the sacrifice.

Right when the first group of North Korean are pretty much battered down, things start to looks up for them as the far flanking units, attack and maneuver from the rear, assaulting a stack of artillery mixed with an Infantry unit and their second group/force of reinforcements enter the map on trucks speeding to the battlefield. However their best opportunity went poorly as they rolled awful on the assault and the dug-in Americans with the fire-first advantage rolled well.

After about turn 15 I called the game with an American victory as the North Koreans had taken too many losses to reorganize any kind of offensive. The American did pay a small price in defense of their artillery, losing one step of M4/76 tanks assaulting a group of NKPA INF and one step of 81mm mortars, one Jeep.50, one forward jeep and SGT as mentioned earlier but the North Koreans lost 13 steps of Infantry including their ATR and one KOM leader and lost the games.